In her 4 May 1988 Var review, Deborah Young called the film "an abstract, wordless documentary showing Third World inhabitants and their cultures in a rapid-fire montage of hypnotic visual image, rhythmically edited to the music of Philip Glass." Production notes in AMPAS library files describe the filmmakers' goal to convey "a record of diversity and transformation, of cultures dying and prospering, of industry for its own sake and the fruits of individual labor, presented as an integrated human ...
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In her 4 May 1988 Var review, Deborah Young called the film "an abstract, wordless documentary showing Third World inhabitants and their cultures in a rapid-fire montage of hypnotic visual image, rhythmically edited to the music of Philip Glass." Production notes in AMPAS library files describe the filmmakers' goal to convey "a record of diversity and transformation, of cultures dying and prospering, of industry for its own sake and the fruits of individual labor, presented as an integrated human symphony."
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Seventy-year-old newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies in his palatial Florida home, Xanadu, after uttering the single word “Rosebud.” While watching a newsreel summarizing the years during which Kane ... >>

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